History Images of vintage gas stations ~ pre 65

It is the "Devil's Elbow Cafe, Devil's Elbow, MO." Conoco station, cabins, grocery store, and U.S. Post Office, circa 1938. The Missouri Ozarks setting with its bluffs along the Big Piney River and iconic bridge behind this unique establishment made for the perfect backdrop for the most imaginative architecture along Highway 66. The local builders used this "giraffe" style rock exterior over much of the Ozarks, but this building with its jagged roofline sandstone exterior was meant to suggest the flames of an inferno.
Unfortunately, a fire in the 1970s claimed this building in the middle of the night.

 

1940 Texaco, Indian Trails

 

I worked @ a SIGNAL Station for 2 of my uncles when I was a teenager, 35th Ave & Foothill Blvd Oakland, Ca.
1963 -Blue Chip stamps, 28.9 cents per gallon Regular. ( Not this one )

 

That irony for ya.

 

Cool to see a 33 Willys in the Signal Station. JW

 

Its probably a '36 with a '33 nose.

 

It's definitely a '33. I own that original photo which was taken in the period. Besides the beltline on a '36 doesn't continue all the way around the back

 

I have a 35 and i know!

 

Good to know. I was being a little "tongue-in-cheek" since most '36 race cars got fiberglass one piece '33 noses.
Does the observation about the beltline apply only to the sedans or to the coupes too? I ask because my coupe is a '36 (ex-race car with a '33 nose LOL) and looks like this:

 

Only Sedan and now back to Gas Stations. JW

 

One of the Early Stations

 

^^^^^^Quadruplets and you buy a metropolitan?

 

McAllister,Okla.

 

First pic = Lee Vining, Ca, last two are Bridgeport, Ca. on Hwy 395.

 

I know Ely well and i can't even image that scene. JW

 

Lost Mountain Store in West Cobb, Georgia

 

U.S. 395/U.S. 6 through Lone Pine, Ca. (1961)

 

Paces Gas & Grocery Clayton, NC on Covered Bridge Rd.

 

1940

 

Broadbrook Garage, Connecticut

. Oklahoma City, Okla.

. Affordable Fuel f

 

Ummm...What the

 

U.S. 395/6 through Big Pine (1958)


Bishop, Ca. Hwy 395/6

 

Mississippi, 1936...
Caption
A plantation store near Clarksville, Mississippi...

 

U.S.395 through Lee Vining, Ca 1948


U.S. 395 Lee Vining, Ca. 1959


U.S. 395 through Doyle, Ca.